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Richard Whelan (23)
Richard Whelan (23)
Social commerce business Popdeem's founders, Richard Whelan, Gavin Hayes, Matteo Zambon and Conor Mongey, are all under the age of 25. The UCD graduates have created an online rewards app that allows shops and banks target individual customers with offers that are redeemable in store. Consumers earn points by interacting with brands using Facebook and Twitter. Users who are identified as most influential among their peers get extra offers.
Led by Whelan, 23, Popdeem is seen as one of Ireland's hottest start-ups as it helps brands get to the hard-to-reach cool kids.
Patrick Leddy (26)
Patrick Leddy (26)
Computer science graduate and serial entrepreneur Patrick Leddy has counted RTE Sport, TV3, Vodafone and giants in banking and insurance such as Citibank and Axa among his clients at Furious Tribe, the phone app design and mobile business strategy company that he founded in Dun Laoghaire in 2010.
With offices in Dublin, London and New York, it employs over 30 people and achieved all of its rapid growth by bootstrapping — without outside investment — Leddy said last year.
After stumbling on a software idea which he describes as game-changing, Leddy stepped down as CEO in August and is working quietly on a new start-up. He remains founder and chairman of Furious Tribe and since January has also been co-founder of TechForce, a recruiter and manager of teams of software developers in Poland.
Eamon Keane (27)
Eamon Keane (27)
Described by its creators as “like Hailo for eCommerce”, Xpreso software allows internet shoppers to follow their orders while in transit, providing live map-based tracking and accurate arrival times.
Emerging from a UCD engineering research group, the company was founded by Eamon Keane, one-time winner of the university's the Institute of Mechanical Engineers best student certificate.
Keane now acts as the Xpreso Software Ltd CEO and, along with 23-year-old chief technical officer Paulo Tubbert-Semiao, he has steered the fledgling start-up to a spot on the Enterprise Ireland-backed New Frontiers programme and a place in NDRC's Launchpad incubator, Ireland's leading digital accelerator.
Mark Moore (26)
Mark Moore (26)
Billing itself as “the world's first dental check-up service via SmartPhone”, OralEye is a revolutionary app that allows users to send high quality images of their teeth and gums to a dentist for assessment without actually visiting a dental office.
Founded by Mark Moore in 2011, OralEye has since spread to the US, and the Dubliner now splits his time between Ireland and San Francisco.
Prior to establishing the firm, Moore's first attempt to develop an app came in 2010 with MyTipOff, a service that offered real-time information on the latest special offers and cut price deals users could avail of. However, the idea was shelved in advance of the development of OralEye.
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